PG, 91 min.
Director: Jimmy Hayward
Writers: Scott Mosier, Jimmy
Hayward, David I. Stern, John J. Strauss
Voices: Owen Wilson, Woody
Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei, Colm Meaney, Keith David, Dan Fogler,
Jimmy Hayward
“Free Birds” is a perfectly
enjoyable family movie. In fact, I’ll give it extra points for its irreverent
humor, which rears up even before the movie starts with a pre-movie disclaimer
that states there my be some historical inaccuracies found within its tale, but
the talking turkeys are totally historically accurate. Also one of the lead
turkeys is clearly insane, which is always a nice quality in a turkey for the
adults in the crowd. We like those less predictable elements in our family
films.
However, I must address a disturbing
trend in my own thinking about these family movies lately. I’m not that
interested in seeing them. There was a time in my twenties when I wasn’t all
that excited about most cartoons and family films, but Pixar had changed all
that. All the other film companies jumped on the Pixar bandwagon and started
making cartoons that were as much for adults as they were for kids. Alas,
either I’ve gotten cynical again, or they just aren’t trying anymore, but these
kids’ movies lately seem to be only trying to appeal to the kids for the most
part. I find it harder and harder to get excited for movies like this.
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